To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a classic tale that gives an accurate depiction of southern Alabama during the early 1930s. It capitalizes on the racism and sexism that runs rampant throughout America within the time period, and retells the stories of the citizens in a sleepy, fictional town named Maycomb. Amongst them, a young tomboy named Scout recalls her life surrounding the events of the Tom Robinson case, and how she changed throughout those four years. Throughout the story of To Kill a Mockingbird, it is clear that Scout is a dynamic, round character that progressively matures from the beginning of To Kill a Mockingbird, during events such as Tom Robinson’s trial, and ends with better developed qualities at the novel’s conclusion.…
Scout: Character analysis Scout Finch is the narrator and main protagonist of the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Scout demonstrates the traits of being intelligent, adventurous, courageous, and compassionate. She shows the trait of intelligence by being smartest student in her first grade class. She is able to read well above her grade level and she can write in cursive; while, the other students are just learning.…
Scout’s Identity Scout is the main character of the book. Scout is a young six-year old girl who lives with her dad who’s name is Atticus, her ten-year old brother named Jem and the cook Calpurnia. Even though Scout is just a little girl she goes through many changes because of the events that caused her to grow up. From her first day of school to meeting Boo Radley Scout changes a lot and so does her identity.…
The main character scout is a little girl who grew up in a small town called Maycomb. Scout is not like the other little girls she has boy like qualities and is smart, she can read and wright unlike other girls her age. Scout is raised by her father Atticus with her brother Jem. Scout tends to act more like a boy by wearing overalls and doing activities that a girl would not do. In the beginning of the story scout is an innocent little girl who discovers the evil of man kind and is soon as the story progresses is turned into a grown-up.…
Unknowingly, Scout appeals to the man's sense of humanity and forces him to realize he must behave properly and leave Atticus and Tom Robinson alone. This ties back to the fact that if you see things from a child's point of view, everything seems more…
Have you ever looked back to your childhood and think about how your surroundings influenced the way you think? Scout Finch takes us back and tells us about the past and how much Maycomb has changed since the Tom Robinson and the Bob Ewell case. Also, you can tell how much Scout’s thoughts changed about rumors going around about black people and Boo Radley. Based on the book “To Kill A Mocking Bird” race/culture, historical, gender, and other lens helped me understand the story, the majority of characters and how things have changed in Maycomb throughout the book. I have used race/culture lens to help me understand the book “To Kill A Mockingbird”.…
In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, there are multiple characters who learn through Atticus and different situations that life is not alway fair. They develop throughout the story and learn so much about life and the good and evil of this world. Scout, who is six, completely changes by the end of the book at the age of nine. Scout is the one telling the story and is impacted and learns the most throughout the book.…
The first person point of view allows for the reader to analyze Scout’s direct thoughts and feelings in given situations. In this scenario, it enables us to also see her vision of Arthur as they had a friendly conversation, once again showing that Scout is no longer concerned over the rumors surrounding Boo. By not necessarily believing all the gossip regarding people and coming to her own conclusions, Scout shows signs of independence and growing…
Scout is one of the most courageous characters in the book because she possess the strength to ignore people ’s mean words. Scout had to hear people say rude comments about her father for what he is standing up for and hold herself…
Harper Lee once said “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” This problem still happens today, everyone judges a person without evening knowing them. When someone judges someone with tattoos and piercings they automatically think he is a bad guy but that isn’t always true. Their point of view can be totally wrong but they would never know. They will never get to truly know the person because their point of view shows them as bad people.…
Then that is different because you get a chance to see what the person is like based on them not on skin color, or money. Throughout “To Kill a Mockingbird” Scout is a naïve girl who would like to have all the information about something so that she can make her own perspective about it but in the beginning she made childish accusations. As the story progressed she was shown the true colors of people and understands how life is in Maycomb County, Alabama. Near the end she makes better decisions and the ideas that come to her mind make her seem more mature.…
The Branches of Perspective “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.” Author Harper Lee clearly demonstrates the importance of perspective in this quote. She reminds us throughout her best-selling novel that a changed perspective and a loss of innocence fly side by side. In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee explores the idea of changing perspective through the staggering differences between the innocent views of a child, and the more cynical, realistic views of those close to adulthood. One way Lee explores the idea of changing and contrasting perspectives is through Jem’s loss of innocence.…
The last reason why Scout has changed throughout the book is that her level of moral development has changed which was described by Dr. Kohlberg. Those things are what this paper is going to be touching on. The First reason that we are going to talk about is that Scout starts to learn about the whole racism thing…
‘To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel about growing up.’ Explore this statement about the novel by Harper Lee. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the theme of growing up is clearly seen through the protagonist Scout and her brother Jem Finch as they grow up and mature in 1930’s Alabama. There are many examples of Scout and Jem growing up in the novel.…
In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee exploits the toxic nature of the South, the early 20th century. The destruction of innocence is evidently shown throughout the rampant bigotry, through the explicit phrase of ‘…it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’ Hence, To Kill a Mockingbird is to kill innocence. In the tale, from the very beginning, a threat that is based on generational racism is posed to destroy a number of innocents. Ultimately, the ‘Mockingbird’ is killed in ways that are worse than death and by the end results in the loss of innocence.…